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Their presence did not reveal a life to you, but their absence reveals a loss.
“All children live in their parents’ realities or the realities of those who raise them, but to be the children of immigrants is, in a sense, varying degrees of living in our parents’ remaking of the country in which they were born.”
― Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
― Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
“Cheng’s broader argument is that identity formation—and racial identity formation in particular—is melancholic itself and is shaped by the push-pulls of loss and recovery.2 I get this. The immigrant family tries to preserve a history and a life that the surroundings resist. They try to invent a new way of being while always seeking a home within the negative space.”
― Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
― Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
“Because that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
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